| Stephanie
Blythe is also the 1999 recipient of the prestigious Richard Tucker
Music Foundation award.
Mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe has firmly established herself as one
of the finest artists of her generation.
During the 2002 summer season, Ms. Blythe made her debut at the Santa
Fe Opera as Isabella in L'Italiana in Algeri. This season she
returns to the Opéra National de Paris as Cornelia in Giulio Cesare,
and to the Metropolitan Opera as Mère Marie in Dialogues des Carmélites
and Baba the Turk in The Rake's Progress. She also makes her
debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden as Mistress Quickly in
Falstaff and returns later in the season for Ino/Juno in Semele.
Last season she was seen at the Metropolitan Opera as Mistress Quickly.
Ms. Blythe's other recent operatic appearances include an impressive
array of house debuts in new productions, among them Mistress Quickly
at the Opéra National de Paris, and Fricka in both Rheingold and
Die Walküre in the Seattle Opera's critically acclaimed staging
of the complete Ring Cycle. She regularly appears with the
Opéra Bastille, the Los Angeles Opera and the Opera Company of Philadelphia.
Operatic roles Ms. Blythe performs include Cornelia in Giulio Cesare,
the title role in Carmen, Isabella in L'Italiana in Algeri,
Auntie in Peter Grimes, Baba the Turk in The Rake's Progress,
the title role in La Grand Duchesse, and Juno in Semele.
On the concert platform, Ms. Blythe can be heard this season with
the Atlanta Symphony in performances of Elijah, the Minnesota Orchestra
in Mahler's Symphony No. 8, and the Opera Orchestra of New
York as Malcolm in La donna del lago. Last season she made
her debut appearances with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
in Verdi's Requiem under the baton of Mark Elder, and with
the Orchestra of St. Luke's with Sir Charles Mackerras in L'enfance
du Christ. She also performed a concert with John Nelson and the
Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, and took part in the premiere of Richard
Danielpour's American Requiem commissioned by the Pacific Symphony
Orchestra.
Ms. Blythe works on a regular basis with the world's finest conductors
including: Yves Abel, James Conlon, Charles Dutoit, Mark Elder, James
Levine, Sir Charles Mackerras, John Nelson, Mstislav Rostropovich, Robert
Spano, Patrick Summers, and Michael Tilson Thomas. The orchestras with
whom she has recently appeared include the Boston Symphony Orchestra,
the New York Philharmonic, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Los Angeles
Philharmonic and the Minnesota Orchestra.
A frequent recitalist, Ms. Blythe has been presented by Lincoln Center's
Great Performers series in Alice Tully Hall, the Art Song Festival at
the Cleveland Institute of Music, the 92nd Street Y in New York, the
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and the Vocal Arts Society in Washington
D.C. Ms. Blythe also premiered Vignettes: Ellis Island, a song cycle
written especially for her by Alan Smith, in a US recital series co-presented
by the Marilyn Horne Foundation.
Ms Blythe's debut CD, a collection of Handel and Bach arias conducted
by John Nelson, was released last year on Virgin Classics.
In addition to being a 1996 recipient of an ARIA Award, Ms. Blythe was
the 1999 Richard Tucker Award winner and was granted Fellowships at
Tanglewood after completing her studies. She is also an alumna of the
Metropolitan Opera's Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. Ms.
Blythe is a native of Mongaup Valley, New York and is a graduate of
the Crane School of Music.
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